I hate working within large, monolithic, uncaring beauracracies. Here's the latest of many unreasonable situations:

I'm going to Los Angeles and San Diego for work next week. To save money for work I am flying in and out of Los Angeles and renting a car and returning that car all within LAX so there's not any one-way fees and so forth. I have a meeting in San Diego on Friday. I have a meeting in L.A. on Monday. I asked for a rental car to be available at LAX on Thursday night upon my arrival so I could drive down to San Diego that night, stay over, have my meeting, and then drive back to L.A. I would then return the car to LAX after my Monday meeting is over and before my flight out that night.

That should make sense and be reasonable. But not within a stupid "rules are rules" beauracracy. The rule is that one cannot have a rental car over a weekend, as such it might lend to personal use. Well, duh. What do they want me to do over the weekend anyway? I'm not even staying in a hotel; I'm staying with my family and saving them money. But whatever. So the "rules" would dictate that I must return the car on Friday before the weekend and then rent a new car (at added cost to work) Monday morning for the Monday needs. How stupid is that? Ugh, I'm so frustrated.